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  • Re Thinking Place: Creativity in Austerity

    by Diarmaid Lawlor

    Austerity. The shift in the economic landscape of the recent past has replaced the narrative of the possible with tougher language. Financial restraint, and difficult choices form the infrastruc...

  • Legislating Risk

    by Anthony Schrag

    In Canmore, Alberta, there is giant head. This head – a figurative sculpture of granite – pokes up from the ground from the mouth up, and with closed-eyes it sits in sleepy silence w...

  • Comment and Analysis: Two Horses' Scarecrow by Shelly Nadashi

    by Ruth Barker

    In March 2010, PAR+RS commissioned our first ever artwork, inviting Israeli-born, Glasgow-based Shelly Nadashi to devise and present a temporary public project. This work was launched at

  • Some Of The Things He Has Done

    by Danny Holcroft

    Danny Holcroft is based at Glasgow Sculpture Studios, and maintains an internationally based practice that is often concerned with the investigation of his position within publi...

  • I Am The Space Where I Am: from Subversion to Citizenship

    by Sarah Lowndes

    In the spring of 1995, artist-organiser James Thornhill staged a series of group exhibitions in a dilapidated tenement on the corner of Glasgow’s Wilton Street and Belmont Street, which in...

  • Neville Gabie at the Clanjamfrey

    by Neville Gabie / Matthew Hearn

    On the 11th and 12th of September 2009, Inverness Old Town Art hosted a two-day

    How Not To Commission

    by Ray McKenzie

    In its information pack ‘Public Art Contacts (VAC2)’, published in November 2008, the Scottish Arts Council lists six organisations in Scotland that describe themselves as agencies f...

  • ARTISTS AND PLACES - the time for a new relationship and a new agenda

    by Andrew Guest

    In the new language of ‘place-making’ both artists and architects are now being asked to uncover the unique characteristics that determine sense of place and create plac...

  • Between Conversation and Memory: Collaborative Conversation Making.

    by Ruth Barker

    In May 2009 I went to the ex servicemen’s club in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, to hear Richard Demarco1 talk about the point...

  • Dans l'air du Soir - Notes on Ambient Art

    by Neil Mulholland

    “The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more. I prefer, simply, to state the existence of things in terms of time and place.’’

  • Things made special - sustainable public art making as collective human behaviour

    by Michelle Letowska

    _’To be modern is to be part of a universe in which, as Marx said, “all that is solid melts into air.” To be modern is to live a life of paradox and contradiction. It is to be ...

  • The Town is the Venue: The Time is Now

    by Patrick Semple

    Deveron Arts is an organisation based in Huntly, Aberdeenshire and has as its modus operandi the phrase ‘the town is the venue’. It is the central tenet of a methodology of public ar...

  • Advice for the Young At Heart (soon we will be older): Or; Monsters Within The Map

    by Anthony Schrag

    I don’t necessarily believe in a linear development of a practice. I can’t believe in ‘a path’ that an artist can follow from student, to emerging artist, to established ...

  • Public / Private Partnership: What crisis of legitimacy?

    by Leigh French

    Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art (Gi) which ran from April 11 to 27 2008 was said to be loosely based within the theme of ‘public/private’. It was also promo...

  • Private Thoughts

    by Ruth Barker

    Private Thoughts and Public Spaces; Public Acts and Private Places; A free symposium presented by Glasgow Sculpture Studios.

    That title is quite long, all things consider...

  • Throwing Shapes

    by Rhona Warwick

    ‘I imagine a world of inexhaustible, unseen forms’
    - Malevich, 19151

    On a cold January morning in 1919,...

  • Cuimhneachain nan Gaisgeach (Commemoration of our Land Heroes)

    by Will McLean

    Cuimhneachain nan Gaisgeach (Commemoration of our Land Heroes) was a community-based voluntary organisation formed in 1989 on the Island of Lewis in the Western Isles under the chairmanship of t...

  • What Have We Learned About Public Art?

    by David Harding

    Public art has come a long way. What was an occasional event and called public sculpture is now ubiquitous and called public art. It was the recognition of the crucial role of context that gave...